Apparatus for cooling and dispensing beverages.



Nq. 880,075. PATENTED FEB. 25, 1908.

- J. R. HALLORAN.

APPARATUS FOR 000mmr AND DISPENSING BEVERAGES.

APPLICATION I-ILBD MAY 27. 1907.

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JAMES R. HALLORAN, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

APPARATUS FOR COOLING AND DISPENSING BEVERAGES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1908.

Application filed May 27. 1907- Serial No. 375.985.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES R. HALLORAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Cooling and Dispensing Beverages; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1 a view in elevation of my improved cooling and dispensing apparatus. Fig. 2a view thereof in rear elevation. Fig. 3 a vertical sectional view of the same. Fig; 4 a view in horizontal section on the line ab of Fig. 3 and looking downward.

My invention relates to an improvement in apparatus for cooling and dispensing beer and kindred beverages, the object being to provide a simple, convenient and effective device not only providing for cooling and attractively dispensing beverages, but also a cold box for cold bottles and steins.

With these ends in view my invention consists in an apparatus for cooling and dispensin beverages, constructed and arranged as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a large inverted bottle 2 having a vent 3 in its topside bottom and supported in an inverted position in the top of a tapering or cone-like hood 4 having a door 5 and itself mounted upon the top of'a cold box 6 having an inner wall 7 and an outer Wall 8 separated by an annular insulating space 9 which may be filled with any insulating material, such as cork, chemical cotton or the like. The said chamber 9 also extends under the botton of the cold box 6 which is supported upon a flaring foot 10. The said cold box 6, hood 4 and bottle 2 form, as it were, a vertical tier of parts, this being at once a convenient, compact and extremely striking arrangement. Beer under gas-pressure is introduced into the bottle 2 through a glass terminal pipe 11 extending well up into it and mounted in its cork 12-the effect of the bottle 2 and pipe 11 being that of a founthe upper portion of the same and through the hood until it enters the cork 12. This pipe is connected with a barrel of beer (or other beverage) under gasressure and is furnished with a supply coc 14, which, on being opened, allows the beer under pressure to be jetted, so to speak, fountainwise into the bottle 2 from which it is drawn through a dead beer pipe 15 leading downward from the cork 12 through the hood 4 and cold box 6 to the bottom of the said cold box where it merges into a coil 16 lying flatwise upon the bottom thereof, the outer end of the said coil passing through the side walls of the box near the bottom thereof and terminating in a dead beer cook 17. A branchpipe 18 leading from the supply pipe 13 at a point therein below the said supply-cock 14 extends horizontally across the cold box 6, following the curvature thereof, and terminates in a fizz cock 19. A drain pipe 20 having a cook 21 leads out of the bottom of the cold-box.

In using the apparatus the cold box will by preference be filled with ice, whereby the beer in the pipe 15 and coil 16 will be cooled. The ice will also maintain the entire ap paratus at a low temperature. On top of the ice may be placed bottles and steins which will be introduced into the cold box and removed therefrom through the door 5 in the hood 4. Supposing it is desired to draw, let us say, a glass of beer, the glass or stein is nearly filled from the dead beer cook 17 to which the beer flows from the bottle 2. A bead is now put upon the beer in the glass from the fizzcock 19 which is connected with the supply pipe 13 in which the beer is under gas-pressure. hen the bottle 2 has been filled the cook 14 must be closed to prevent the bottle from over flowing through the vent 3 in its top side under the pressure on the beer at the source of supply.

I claim 1. In an apparatus for cooling and dis pensing beverages, the combination with a cold-box, of a hood located thereupon and provided with a door, an inverted bottle supported in the top of the hood and having a vent in its bottom for the escape of gas, the said cold-box, hood and bottle forming a vertical tier of parts, a supplypipe leading into the bottle through the cork thereof, a supply-cock in the said supply pipe, a termina pipe extending upward into the said the said coil, a branch pipe leading from the said supply-pipe at'a'point therein "below'the said supply-cock, and a'fizz oock connected with the terminal of the} branch pipe.

"2. In an apparatus for cooling and dispensing beer, the combination with 'a "coldbox, of a hood moun-ted thereu'pon and :provided with a door for 7360653 to the coldbox, "an inverted "bottle'supported in the top of the hood and-having :a vent inits bottom for the-escape ofegas,",the-said cold box, hood and bottle forming a Nertiealtier Of'parts, 'a terminal pipe extending upward into the bottle from the cork thereof, :a suppl yepipe entering the apparatus through the said cold-box and rising therefrom through the cock "located in the said supply-plpe, a

dead beer pipe leading downward from the cork of the bottle through the hood and cold-box and terminating at its lower end in a coil, a dead beer cock connected with the outer end of the said coil, a branch pipe connected with the supply-pipe at a point therein below the said supply-cock and passing through the said cold-box, and a fizz cocklocated at the outer terminalof the branch-pipe.

In testimony whereof, I havesignedthis specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES 'R. HALLoRAN. Witnesses JAMEs T. MEsKILL, JAMES J. WATSON. 

